HNW Lending Review

HNW Lending’s Manual Property & Asset Lending Account, averaging LTV after directors taking first loss, received an Exceptional 3/3 4thWay PLUS Rating. That lending account is paying around interest and the average lent is just of the valuation of the borrowers’ properties. Its auto-lend account pays…

CapitalStackers Review

CapitalStackers’ Property Lending Account/IFISA has earned an “Exceptional” 3/3 4thWay PLUS Rating. We forecast that lenders who start lending today will earn an average interest after bad debts, most of the time, although this will vary depending on your specific loans. Visit CapitalStackers* or keep…

Blend Review

Blend’s Development And Property-Secured Business Loans are unrated, due to lack of information. These loans have been paying lenders around . Visit Blend or keep reading the Blend Review.

Best Innovative Finance ISAs In 2026

What are the best Innovative Finance ISAs? The best innovative finance ISAs are these, which offer a market-leading risk-reward balance: CapitalRise IFISA. (Minimum £1,000 per loan.) CapitalStackers IFISA. (Minimum £2,500 per loan.) Housemartin IFISA. (Minimum £1 per loan.) Loanpad IFISA. (Minimum £0.01, spread across 100s…

Crowd2Fund Review

Crowd2Fund’s Business Lending is unrated, due to lack of data. There’s not enough information to estimate lending rates after losses from bad debts. Visit Crowd2Fund or keep reading the Crowd2Fund Review.

The 7 Best Peer-To-Peer Lending Accounts In The UK 2026

My team and I have been assessing P2P lending accounts since 2014 and we continue to have an outstanding record. (We won’t always get all the most important calls right – that’s impossible in investing – but we expect that we almost always will.) My…

CapitalRise Review

CapitalRise’s Bridging & Development Loans have earned the Exceptional 3/3 4thWay PLUS Rating. These loans have been paying lenders around  interest after bad debts. Visit CapitalRise* or keep reading the CapitalRise Review.

Somo Review

Somo’s Bridging Lending Account received an Exceptional 3/3 4thWay PLUS Rating. These loans have been paying lenders . That’s before bad debts, although historically losses have been virtually zero. Visit Somo* or keep reading the Somo Review.

Somo Review

Somo’s Bridging Lending Account received an Exceptional 3/3 4thWay PLUS Rating. These loans have been paying lenders . That’s before bad debts, although historically losses have been virtually zero. Visit Somo* or keep reading the Somo Review.

CrowdProperty Review

CrowdProperty’s Bridging & Development loans are unrated. This account has recently been paying lenders interest before bad debts. Visit CrowdProperty or keep reading the CrowdProperty Review.

Housemartin Review

Housemartin’s P2P Lending Account And IFISA And Classic Account has earned an Exceptional 3/3 4thWay PLUS Rating. These loans have been paying lenders around of the loan amount in interest, after bad debts. Visit Housemartin* or keep reading the Housemartin Review.

Somo Review

Somo’s Bridging Lending Account received an Exceptional 3/3 4thWay PLUS Rating. These loans have been paying lenders . That’s before bad debts, although historically losses have been virtually zero. Visit Somo* or keep reading the Somo Review.

Kuflink In Trouble With The Financial Conduct Authority

I was hoping to do an update on Kuflink in November after getting sufficient answers to a number of outstanding queries, as well as corrected data.  Unfortunately, those answers are not all in yet, but there’s more immediate news for me to update you on….

Can A P2P Lending Provider Be Too Profitable?

The last time we updated our piece on profitability (Which P2P Lending Sites Are Profitable?) I received the comment: “There is a flipside, the more the platform is making, the more they are taking from the lenders who actually fund the loans. And once Lendy was…

Inside Loanpad: The Tech Protecting Your Lending Returns

In 4thWay’s main update published this week, I wrote about how the financial regulator has put restrictions on Kuflink, due to failings in governance. “Governance” basically means managing the business in a proper way, with sufficient safeguards for lenders and others. One of the issues…

Latest Full Lande Assessment For Lenders

LANDE* was the first ever P2P lending company in either the eurozone or continental Europe to be fully assessed by 4thWay. Lenders using LANDE have lent since 2020. What does LANDE do? LANDE’s borrowers are Latvian, Lithuanian and Romanian businesses – almost all farmers. Loans…

Proplend Review

Proplend’s Tranche A, 5-50% LTV Lending Against Property Mostly Receiving Rent has earned an Exceptional 3/3 4thWay PLUS Rating. These loans have been paying interest after lending fees bad debts. Proplend’s other loans (called tranche B and C) are also 3/3 rated and paying 9%-12%….

Somo Now Taking First Loss On Most Loans

On second-charge loans approved on or after 1st November 2025, Somo* is providing 10% first-loss protection on the money you lend. The total Somo will ever pay out for the guarantee is capped at £1.2 million. Somo’s guarantee cuts in when all reasonable attempts to…

Unbolted Review

Unbolted’s IFISA And Classic Account are Unrated, because we don’t receive sufficient data to conduct our full assessments. Unbolted has only sporadically provided information and sparse data to 4thWay. Lenders seem to be offered around after bad debts, if you re-lend your loans and interest….

Kuflink Update: Bad Debts & How Do Recent Changes Impact Lenders?

We’ve had a loooot of emails from lenders about recent changes at Kuflink, as well as one or two about bad debts. I’ve finished my investigations into the changes and re-interviewed key people at Kuflink. I’ve also done some preliminary research on bad debts in…

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